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I.
Think of a world of witches, of high technology and space travel, of science and superstition. A world on the verge of
changing inhabitable planets into green pastures and endless forests, a world so short of energy resources that all fuels
are grown or captured from the sun.
You say there is no such world? Or that it is only our world, dressed up for a storyteller's pleasure?
Set aside your doubts . . . this world was as real as any you will know . . . and learn about the timedivers' dawn.
Perhaps it began here:
"Meryn." The slight, sandy-haired woman looked as though she carried perhaps a score of years, until she gazed
upon one, and the darkness behind her eyes delivered the weight of centuries.
"Yes, Mother." The second woman, also slender and sandy-haired, could have been a twin to the first, except for the
lesser depth of her eyes.
"It's time."
"I know."
"There can be no more witches in Eastron. Not now. Not with the Empress of Westron's demands, and the
weaknesses in the Duchy."
"But the Bardwalls still stand. ..."
"And they will, and you may always return to look upon them. You must make a place among the people of Westron
and learn their technologies. Our time has gone and will not come again for centuries. Not until they have stripped the
last metals from the ground. Not until they have been hurled from the skies."
"Mother?"